Luke 17:10
'So also ye, when ye may have done all the things directed you, say — We are unprofitable servants, because that which we owed to do — we have done.'
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
9Hath he favour to that servant because he did the things directed? I think not.
Cross References
Job 22:2To God is a man profitable, Because a wise man to himself is profitable?
Psalms 16:2Thou hast said to Jehovah, 'My Lord Thou [art];' My good [is] not for thine own sake;
Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, And Jehovah is pondering the spirits.
Isaiah 64:6And we are as unclean — all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf — all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.
Matthew 25:30and the unprofitable servant cast ye forth to the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.
Romans 3:12All did go out of the way, together they became unprofitable, there is none doing good, there is not even one.
Matthew Henry on Luke 17:2-11
The Treatment of Offences. 1 Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! 2 It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones. 3 Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. 4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I… Read the whole commentary →